Jan Koum
Ukrainian-born American entrepreneur
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| 2024 | Donated $250,000 to a committee supporting Daniel Lurie's candidacy for mayor of San Francisco. |
| 2024 | Donated $5 million to a Super PAC supporting Nikki Haley's presidential campaign. |
| 2024 | Became a leading donor to the United Democracy Project, a Super PAC affiliated with AIPAC. |
| November 2023 | Koum acquired Château de la Garoupe in Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera for approximately 65 million euros, a property previously owned by Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. |
| 2022 | Donated $1 million to Fordham University and $41 million to Stanford University. |
| 2022 | Donated $17 million to the European Jewish Association and $10.6 million to the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS to support relief efforts during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. |
| 2022 | Donated $600,000 to the Maccabee Task Force, $6 million to Friends of Ir David, and $175,000 to Central Fund of Israel. |
| 2022 | Donated $2 million to AIPAC during the Democratic Party primaries. |
| 2019 | Donated $500,000 through the Koum Family Foundation. |
| 2018 | Donated $750,000 through the Koum Family Foundation. |
| April 2018 | Koum announced his departure from WhatsApp and Facebook's board of directors due to internal disputes. |
| 2016 | Donated an additional $500,000 to The FreeBSD Foundation. |
| 2016 | Koum sold more than $2.4 billion worth of Facebook stock, approximately half of his total holdings. |
| 2014 | Media reports suggested Koum was dating Ukrainian model Evelina Mambetova. |
| 2014 | Donated $1 million to The FreeBSD Foundation and nearly $556 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF). |
| October 2014 | Koum publicly expressed regret about his past behavior, stating he was ashamed of his actions that led to the legal restraining order. |
| February 19 2014 | Facebook announced the acquisition of WhatsApp for US$19 billion. |
| February 9 2014 | Mark Zuckerberg invited Koum to dinner and proposed he join Facebook's board. |
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